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• The quality of your moments produces the quality of your life. So, as thoughts come and go and the waves of mind rush on, Carpe punctum-Seize this moment. It deserves your full attention, for it will not pass your way again.

  Dan Millman

  Mind, Quality, Attention

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• I live with carpe diem engraved on my heart.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Heart, Carpe Diem, Engraved

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• Time is painted with a lock before, and bald behind, signifying thereby that we must take time by the forelock; for, when it is once past, there is no recalling it.

  Jonathan Swift

  Carpe Diem, Past, Locks

  Jonathan Swift (1752). “The works of D. Jonathan Swift ...: To which is prefixed, the doctor's life, with remarks on his writings, from the Earl of Orrery and others, not to be found in any former edition of his works.Dublin printed”, p.159

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• Let you hold in mind, girls, that your beauty must pass
  Like a lovely white clover that rusts with its grass.
  Keep your bottoms off barstools and marry you young
  Or be left--an old barrel with many a bung.

  X. J. Kennedy

  Girl, Carpe Diem, White

  X. J. Kennedy (2007). “In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus: New and Selected Poems, 1955–2007”, p.12, JHU Press

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• If modern civilization man had to kill the animals he eats, the number of vegetarians would rise astronomically.

  Christian Morgenstern

  Animal, Carpe Diem, Men

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• We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.

  Che Guevara

  Life, Death, Courage

  "Wise Guys: Brilliant Thoughts and Big Talk from Real Men". Book by Allan Zullo, p. 36, 2005.

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• The most valuable things in life are priceless. They are courage, compassion, wisdom, respect for ourselves and others, and a host of characteristics that we call the beauty of the human spirit.

  Herbie Hancock

  Compassion, Carpe Diem, Things In Life

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• I totally carpe-d the snot out of this diem!

  Jerry Scott

  Carpe Diem

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• This music heals people because music is vibration, and the proper vibration heals.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Carpe Diem, People, Vibrations

  Wynton Marsalis, Carl Vigeland (2002). “Jazz In The Bittersweet Blues Of Life”, p.30, Da Capo Press

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• Each of us is the only person who can give the other what each of us wants to have: Peace.

  Ugo Betti

  Carpe Diem, Giving, Want

  Ugo Betti (1964). “Struggle Till Dawn”, San Francisco, Chandler

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• There is one thing we can do, and the happiest of people are those who do it to the limit of their ability. We can be completely present.

  Mark Van Doren

  Carpe Diem, People, Limits

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• Above all you must illumine your own soul with its profundities and its shallows, and its vanities and its generosities, and say what your beauty means to you or your plainness, and what is your relation to the ever-changing and turning world.

  Virginia Woolf

  Mean, Carpe Diem, Vanity

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.618, Wordsworth Editions

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• To understand is to stand under which is to look up to which is a good way to understand.

  Corita Kent

  Carpe Diem, Looks, Way

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• Be happy whenever you can manage it. Enjoy yourself. It's lighter than you think.

  John Cage

  Carpe Diem, Thinking, Enjoy

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• In this speedy world of ours when facts are multiplying rapidly and giant rearrangements are happening all around us, it seems dangerous to be made nervous by the new - to want what we can never have, to want things not to be rearranged. It would be better to be able to take the leap, which is to be able not only to live with change and newness, but even to help make it.

  Corita Kent

  Carpe Diem, Giants, Would Be

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• If a man is to live, he must be all alive, body, soul, mind, heart, spirit.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Heart, Carpe Diem

  Thomas Merton (2011). “Thoughts In Solitude”, p.30, Macmillan

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• When we approach love and creativity with the level of conviction that the powers-that-be in the world today are approaching hatred and destruction, then and only then will we have a chance.

  Marianne Williamson

  Creativity, Carpe Diem, Hatred

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• There's more to life then living, so hold on.

  Todd Strasser

  Carpe Diem, More To Life

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• Q, you're going to go to Duke. You're going to be a very successful lawyer-or-something and get married and have babies and live your whole little life, and then you're going to die, and in the last moments, when you're chocking on your own bile in the nursing home, you'll say to yourself:'Well, I wasted my whole goddamned life, but at least I broke into SeaWorld with Margo Roth Spiegelman my senior year of high school. At least I carpe'd that one diem.

  John Green

  Senior, Baby, Home

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• The old Lie:Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori.

  Wilfred Owen

  War, Lying, Latin

  "Dulce et Decorum Est" l. 21 (written 1918) See Horace 20

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• We are all dying, every moment that passes of every day. That is the inescapable truth of this existence. It is a truth that can paralyze us with fear, or one that can energize us with impatience, with the desire to explore and experience, with the hope- nay, the iron-will!- to find a memory in every action. To be alive, under sunshine, or starlight, in weather fair or stormy. To dance with every step, be they through gardens of flowers or through deep snows.

  R. A. Salvatore

  Memories, Flower, Sunshine

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• Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Carpe diem, quam minime credula postero.
  Enjoy the present day, trusting very little to the morrow.

  Horace

  Time, Carpe Diem, Littles

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• Our most consequential human problems will be resolved, not through competition, but collaboration... what we need in education is a learning climate in which students work together. In such an atmosphere, truth emerges as authentic insights are conscientiously exchanged.

  Ernest L. Boyer

  Carpe Diem, Competition, Atmosphere

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• What did the tree learn from the earth to be able to talk with the sky?

  Pablo Neruda

  Carpe Diem, Sky, Tree

  Pablo Neruda (1991). “The book of questions”, Copper Canyon Pr

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